In the book "The Things They Carried" the author Tim O’Brien talks about his experience in the Vietnam War. He also talks about his experience when he got the draft letter and how he left to go to Canada but then stopped at Minnesota and meets an older man. Tim O’Brien is a good author and describes every event and setting with such detail that you feel like you are in the characters shoes. He puts so much detail into the characters that you believe that these characters are real people. Tim also talks in great detail when the soldiers are in combat and describes the wounds and injuries that the soldiers had suffered from the fighting. Like when Lee Strunk stepped “on a rigged mortar round” and you could see “slivers of bone, and the blood came in quick spurts” (65). He wrote this book not just to describe what the Vietnam War was like but how the soldiers were affected and dealt with all of the violence especially at such a young age. He shows how immature and irresponsible some of the soldiers are because most of them are only 18 to 21 years old and have only been out of high school for a couple of years.
By Taylor Perdue
I agree! Some of the soldiers were immature. Especially the ones that blew up the pooor dog and the baby water buffalo. I thought that the part about the "slivers of bone, and the blood came in quick spurts" was one of the more intersting parts of the book to read. I also think that men between the ages of 18 and 21 are to irresponsible to be fighting in war.
ReplyDeleteI agree with what you have said and I also believe that Tim O’Brein is a great author. The stories he tells in his book are so descriptive and full of emotion that his stories are so much more personal. Like you have mentioned, by reading this book I feel like I was fighting in the Vietnam War right by his side.
ReplyDeleteYes these young men arethrust into a war that they may or may not agree with. They just try to cope with it the best they can, be it playing checkers before lights out, or strapping a claymore to a puppy. They are just kids, and are scareed out of their minds.
ReplyDeleteMany of the other men wanted to go to Canada because like Tim Obrien they were scared of the war and what could happen to them while they were at war. While in the war times became scary and life threatening situations. Like Taylor I feel that the soldiers need to be more mature. By Ryan Barber.
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